Representations of Rape and Consent in Medieval English Laws and Literature
How did legal, literary, and scientific discourses intersect to define sexual non-consent in the Middle Ages? How did popular cultural assumptions about sexuality and gender influence actual medieval criminal proceedings? And how far have we really come today? This book explores medieval English...
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| description | How did legal, literary, and scientific discourses intersect to define sexual non-consent in the Middle Ages? How did popular cultural assumptions about sexuality and gender influence actual medieval criminal proceedings? And how far have we really come today?
This book explores medieval English understandings of rape, consent, and the assumed mind-body dichotomy of rapists and rape victims. It demonstrates how laws, trial records, popular romance, and ecclesiastic and medical texts defined sexual consent and non-consent, and the consequences of such ideologies. By comparing episodes of rape and consent across diverse primary sources, it considers important medieval English rape myths and victim-blaming stereotypes. Significantly, it also highlights the cultural trepidation associated with believing women’s accusations of rape and questions how much “progress” we have made since then. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1469022024-12-10T04:52:22Z Representations of Rape and Consent in Medieval English Laws and Literature Cooper, Mariah L. medieval rape culture; victim blaming; the assaulted body; raptus; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history::NHDJ European history: medieval period, middle ages thema EDItEUR::L Law::LA Jurisprudence and general issues::LAZ Legal history thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSB Literary studies: general::DSBB Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval How did legal, literary, and scientific discourses intersect to define sexual non-consent in the Middle Ages? How did popular cultural assumptions about sexuality and gender influence actual medieval criminal proceedings? And how far have we really come today? This book explores medieval English understandings of rape, consent, and the assumed mind-body dichotomy of rapists and rape victims. It demonstrates how laws, trial records, popular romance, and ecclesiastic and medical texts defined sexual consent and non-consent, and the consequences of such ideologies. By comparing episodes of rape and consent across diverse primary sources, it considers important medieval English rape myths and victim-blaming stereotypes. Significantly, it also highlights the cultural trepidation associated with believing women’s accusations of rape and questions how much “progress” we have made since then. 2024-10-31T04:11:48Z 2024-10-31T04:11:48Z 2024-10-29T13:06:45Z 2024 book https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/94121 9781802700534 9781802702743 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/146902 eng Gender and Power in the Premodern World open access image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/94121/1/9781802700534.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/94121/1/9781802700534.pdf Arc Humanities Press 10.2307/jj.21570589 10.2307/jj.21570589 f13fc637-eaa8-4720-b1fa-dafaccb9c6d2 9781802700534 9781802702743 214 Leeds open access |
| spellingShingle | medieval rape culture; victim blaming; the assaulted body; raptus; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history::NHDJ European history: medieval period, middle ages thema EDItEUR::L Law::LA Jurisprudence and general issues::LAZ Legal history thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSB Literary studies: general::DSBB Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval Representations of Rape and Consent in Medieval English Laws and Literature |
| title | Representations of Rape and Consent in Medieval English Laws and Literature |
| title_full | Representations of Rape and Consent in Medieval English Laws and Literature |
| title_fullStr | Representations of Rape and Consent in Medieval English Laws and Literature |
| title_full_unstemmed | Representations of Rape and Consent in Medieval English Laws and Literature |
| title_short | Representations of Rape and Consent in Medieval English Laws and Literature |
| title_sort | representations of rape and consent in medieval english laws and literature |
| topic | medieval rape culture; victim blaming; the assaulted body; raptus; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history::NHDJ European history: medieval period, middle ages thema EDItEUR::L Law::LA Jurisprudence and general issues::LAZ Legal history thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSB Literary studies: general::DSBB Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval |
| topic_facet | medieval rape culture; victim blaming; the assaulted body; raptus; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history::NHDJ European history: medieval period, middle ages thema EDItEUR::L Law::LA Jurisprudence and general issues::LAZ Legal history thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSB Literary studies: general::DSBB Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval |
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